Chancellor insists people based outside south-east England will feel benefit of national living wage
The chancellor, George Osborne, will respond to claims his budget welfare reforms hit the poor hardest by saying women and those based outside London and the south-east will be the main beneficiaries of the government’s new national living wage.
He will publish a Treasury analysis of the impact of the central announcement of last week’s budget – a mandatory new living wage for all over-25s that is likely to top £9 an hour by 2020.
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